Anna Russell on Beatrix Potter’s life, art, writing (“The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” etc.), and secret coded journal, and on the upcoming Potter exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

"Beatrix Potter looked into the germination of their spores. ... Soon afterwards, records show she asked for the work to be returned in order to make some changes and never resubmitted it.

Children's author Beatrix Potter is the subject of a new movie starring Renee Zellweger. But the film covers only a small chapter in the life of an accomplished woman, whose obsessions included ...

Beatrix Potter in about 1905 at her farm Hill Top. ZUMA Press. Even as a teenager, Beatrix could be caustic in her appraisal of other people’s art, especially when their renderings of plants and ...

Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century.

The Morgan Library and Museum is no place for kids most of the time. But small patrons (who can be reasonably quiet for a relatively short interlude) are welcome in "Beatrix Potter: The Picture ...

The image is sketchy-looking, but vigorous, and it suggests that if the book had been finished, Kitty-in-Boots would have been a worthy member of Potter’s feline pantheon.

Peter Rabbit — older and stouter — returns this fall in a newly published Beatrix Potter story, The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots. It was probably written just before World War I and then abandoned.

Artist Quentin Blake, known for his Roald Dahl illustrations, has done the drawings for ‘The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots,’ about a black cat with a double life. Artist Quentin Blake, known for his ...